{"id":2815,"date":"2020-05-07T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/138.197.200.24\/resources\/?post_type=blog&p=2815"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:23:54","slug":"top-10-customer-success-best-practices-for-saas","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.smartkarrot.com\/resources\/blog\/top-10-customer-success-best-practices-for-saas\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Customer Success Best Practices for SaaS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have put together a list of the top 10 customer success best practices for SaaS companies.<\/p>\n

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#1 Share Customer Data across teams<\/h2>\n

Preventing churn is everybody\u2019s job and the Customer Success team is not the only group in charge of retention and growth. CSMs should work to ensure that every important conversation, interaction, and engagement is recorded and shared across the enterprise.<\/p>\n

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#2 Build outstanding feedback loops<\/h2>\n

Feedback will help you to gather relevant information about your user personas and their opinion of your product. Listen to their opinions, let them know what you\u2019re planning to do, always remember to circle back and close the loop. At the end of the day, you\u2019re building the product for them.<\/p>\n

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#3 Maintain very high touch for first 90 days<\/h2>\n

The first 3 months sets the tone for the following 9 months. A customer\u2019s experience in this formative stage when they\u2019re paying the most attention to your product must go well, so be especially attentive and proactive.<\/p>\n

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#4 Excel in customer education<\/h2>\n

Make your customer better at using your product by educating them constantly, and share ways in which other customers are using the tool. Don\u2019t keep claiming that \u201cyour product is so easy to use\u201d, get to a place where at least some of your customers start saying that.<\/p>\n

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#5 Let your customers contribute to your backlog<\/h2>\n

Make sure your customers know their views on the product are important, and let them feel the partnership in improving things all around. As a result, customers will feel appreciated and invested in your product.<\/p>\n

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#6 Regularly review each stage of the customer journey<\/h2>\n

CSMs should regularly review all the significant stages of the customer product journey, from onboarding through adoption and renewal. Each stage should be assigned clear goals that relate to the effective use of your product, which should then be tracked regularly.<\/p>\n

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#7 Design an excellent product tour!<\/h2>\n

Instead of building one long and boring product tour across your entire product, try to build several smaller product tours (with 2 \u2013 4 steps), that are triggered by a certain context\/event. Build product tours for each of your features, but show them only when the user starts to use the individual feature. Not before.<\/p>\n

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#8 Personalise your interactions with each user<\/h2>\n

Ensure your interactions with the customers\/users are personalized (In App, mail, text, etc.). In an age of hyper personalization, it creates a sub-par experience if you send out broadcast mails with no personalization on information, context and timing.<\/p>\n

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#9 Use a great Customer Success tool<\/h2>\n

Customer Success<\/a> is tightly correlated with Customer Support, Product Marketing, and Development. Ensure you are using a great platform that saves your team\u2019s time and efforts, automates a bunch of things, is easily accessible by all team members (across departments), and provides relevant information about your customers.<\/p>\n

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#10 Finally \u2013 Touch, Touch, Touch<\/h2>\n

Apart from the automated tech touchpoints, every customer should be touched at least once a month, big customers should be touched once a week, and your most important customers should be touched multiple times a week. A \u201ctouch\u201d is not an automated email, by the way. It is a recurring meeting, sincere email or better yet, a well timed call.<\/p>\n

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Do read through and share with us on any customer success best practices we may have missed in comments below. Also, feel free to download a copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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